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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-04-28
Saved by n Laugh.

A well-known and popular young
broker living uptown in the immediate
vicinity of his fashionable club, was a
few days ago the victim of an expert
enee at once amusing and irritating
The episode is too good to remain un.
told, but all names will be withheld
through sympathy. The young man
was i'll at his lodgings, and flowers,
kind messages, cigars, thoughtful
friends, nor nothing else could alleviate
has sutferings. Every body was in des-
pair until a medicine man was sent
for
After feeling the patients pulse the
physician shook his head gravely and
declared that the broker must do some
thing 10 get up an appetite. To do
this a sample from the repertoire of the
far-famed cuisine of the brokers' club
was prescribed. No objection was
raised to this kind of medicine,
and the sick mans valet sent at once
for menu of the club. The invalid
raised his fevered head on his elbow,
and, glancing over the bill of fare, pro-
ceeded to order what he thought would
restore the bloom on his cheeks and the
luster to his eyes.
There was bOuillon, thin and trans
parent as an October morning, canvas
back duck fresh from the shores of
Maryland, and a lot of other dainty
dishes. This was topped off with
liberal supply Of pate de foie gras and
two or three bottles of Poutet-Canet
and Mumm. The messenger bell was
then rung and the order was intrusted
to a bright eyed little Mercury. Away
sped the boy to the club and his order
set every employe there in commotion.
Even the chef woke up and with his
own hands prepared salad with dress.
ing polished enough for the gods.
Meanwhile at the lodging of the
broker all was topsy-turvy. The in
valid with considerable alacritv paced
the room, and his valet bestirred him.
self with extraordinary agility. They
waited long and patiently, but neither
the boy nor his choice viands put in an
appearance. After considerable DELAY
the suspense became so exasperating
that the man-servant was ordered to
go IN search OF the youngster, and
bring him in dead or alive. He at once
started out, but proceeded no further
than the door of the brokers lodgings.
There, comfortably seated on the rug
with his feet dangling gayly over the
steps, was the missing urchin. Crumbs,
greasy spots, and empty bottles were
all that remained of the sumpuous re-
past, and the little Mercury ayas in
frame'of mind bordering on hilarity.
As soon as the broker heard how his
dinner disappeared he laughed long and
heartily. 1t was the first smile that he
had given while i'll. The invalid tried
to save the boy, and interposed earnest.
ly for him, but in vain. Now the bov
and the broker are good friends, and
the broker is fast conyalescing.-Neao
York Star.
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One Scientific Man not InfalIibIe.

l was born in Philadelphia, and when
5 years old received an accidental cut
in the left eye from a sharp missile il
the hands OF playmate OF my own age.
The injury was not fatal one, and if
doctors had left me alone it is probable
that | should have had the use of tive
good eyes for the rest Of my life. After
the wound healed it was covered by a
slight scab, which the physician said
must be removed by the use of nitrate
Of silver. This he applied in so large
quantity that the eye was scared as
with not iron, and the sight went out
forever.
A fierce Inflammation was set up,
passed to the other eye, and with two
blazing furnaces under my forehead
spent two years in q room dark as night,
on diet of cruel, muSh and molasses,
and rice, with almost daily doses OF
medicine, cuppings, leechings and
bleeding, administered after the heroic
method of that time, the eyes kept
constantly wet with solution OF sugar
Of lead. When I came out of the
prison it was with small fraction of
the right eye, for the solution left a
deposit which uniting with the lymph
from the inflammation, had formed
opacities in the corner which in
time blotted the sun from my sky
and shut out from me the beauty OF
the world.-Rer. IT, H. Nil5urn in
LippincoH'S Haqazinc.
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A Soldier in Three Grand Wars.

A reporter has discovered that
Charles HeEse~ who was a carrier of
private dispatches for Abraham Lincoln,
and held the presidents hand when he
lay wounded in Ford's theater, Wash
ington, is IN this city in distressed cir
cumstances, writes a PittsbUrg cor
respondent to the New York IrjJUne.
His occupation Is .1ending umbrellas,
and he is nearly dead from consump.
ton. Heyser has had a remarkable
history. To the reporter he said: u
enlisted at Albany in company d, I'd
United States cavalry. Ours was the
first cavalry company at Washington
after the opening of the war. When
the war was over ] was honorably dis
charged. At the first battle of Bull
Run ! received in the left side of my
jaw ball which made its way around
10 the right side of my head, near the
top. The bullet is still there. l got
that carrying q dispatch to Gen. Nc
Dowell, who was in command of Ar
lngtOn heights. had served ten years in
the Prussian army prior to the rebellion,
and after Lees surrender / revisited
Germany, and when the war between
Austria and Prussia broke out | was
again in the ranks. The Franco-Prus-
sian war then loOmed up, and for the
fourth time | became Il soldier. At
Grayelotte two horses were shot under
me, but | was not wounded. | was in
the regiment of Black hussars. They
are the pick of the whole army, and
are only thrown into action to turn the
tide of battle. The skull and cross
bones on their caps means death before
retreat. Subsequently | returned to
America. My wife and two daughters
died in Germany, and my only son is
in one Of the German regiments OF
sharpshooters. / have no friends OF
relatives here. My. brother is inspector
of police in Hamburg. My father is
gamekeeper for the king, and lives with
his forester in one of the kings castles
at Hartzberg. If live till spring and
can get enough money, | shall go home,
! have never applied for pension.
have always been able to take care o.
myself, but now | viii send my dis
charge papers to Gen. Black, the pension
commissioner who will remember me, =
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e o . 70 70 r . o
Now did YOU ever? | gave her
two pairs of Jersey gloves for Christ
mas. and somebody else gave her some
haudkerchiefs and four collars and
cuffs to match. She made a petticoat
of last years dress skirt, but of course
she wasn't warm, and couldn't be.
This yaar she's just rooming and buy
ing what she eats, most anywhere, SOS
70 have better clothes, and it's my
opinion she'll kill herself There are
lots doing the same. but don't believe
they'd tell you how"
a ,.etty girl with soft, shy eyes
had come up and was listening inter-
estedly,
IN tell, :" she said. sWhy not? l
don't suppose folks know how hard it
is to get along. l wasn't but y when
l went into the bag factory with So
week for wages. Now I'm in a store
and get s.. This is the way l do now:
Breakfast and tea in the house; coffee
and meat for the breakfast, so YOU get
q very good start, and bread and butter
and tea. and sometimes sauce, for sup
per. For dinner ! get a cream cake or
some drop cakes. that always seem to
I'll up. I've been saving for a while
for dress, and SO I've just paid $1-a
week for my share of the room we live
in and bought something for breakfast,
most always pie. You can get a
splendid pie for five cents, and a pretty
good one t0r three. And it's plenty.
too. That's the way the girls in the
bag factory do. You know when YOU
don't get but s. week, and it needs
- cents for your share Of the room.
there isn't much left for board. | oct
a stew at night. They make splendid
beef stew in place down near Allen
street, and ten cents buys a big plate.
| can manage, if have to, on Is cents
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day-no. 16, two pies at three cents
apiece, and the stew. | got my last
dress that way.
There's one thing that's hard on Us.
Quantities Of girls live at home and
don't have to spend cent of what they
earn, except for clothes, and then the
store manager wonders why we can't
look just a. well. I'd like to have him
try it. that's all. It's better than sew
inc, I will say that, and lots Just do it
till they're married, but sometimes l
wonder if there couldn't be some better
way Of earning. I'm sick of it all, but
l don't know how to do anything else,
and YOU are your own mistress. That's
always some satisfaction. If you get
sick there's always the hospital, and
YOU can get medicine from the dis
pensary. o, yes, there's lots of things
to be had for nothing, and there's al
ways something going on. I'd die in
the country; I'd like a store three times
as big and a crowd in it all the time. "
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Gone Into Quarantine.

Several evenings ago Major Stofah
went up on Sixteenth street to see a
young lady to whom he has been very
attentive for some months. She was
not visible at first, and her twelve
year-old brother entertained the Mai
or. After various questions the kid re-
marked:
You amt contagious, are you?"
"Why Johnny, what do you mean by
that?" asked the Major with an inno-
cent laugh of surprise.
"Oh, nothin', l guess; only 1 heard
mother say you wasn't, cause sister
has been trying to catch you all win
ter, bnt she couldn't do it."
The Major remained the rest of the
evening, but hasn't been back since
Lent began Washington Critic.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-04-28

The young lady teacher of public
school at Santa Rosa, Cal, was very
desirous of giving an exhibition at
the close of the term, and drilled the
scholars in declamations, recitations,
etc. The pupils were strongly averse
to the project, fearing the criticisms of
visitors, and when the dreadful day
arrived and all preparations were COM
pleted, the teacher was surprised by
the absence of visitors, of whom she
had invited many. The reason was
made apparent by the subsequent dis
covery that the pupils had surreptI-
tiously pinned card on the door after
the school hour, which read: '.Ex-
animation day! No visitors admitted
this afternoon.
These strikers are all alike" said
Blunderbore; ''my daughter was read
ing last night about one of them.
Mark O'Bozzaris was his name; evil
IDENTIFY OF Irish extraction. Well, this
fellow made a speech to his district as
sembly, and called upon his knightly
companions to strike to the death, and
wound up by telling them to strike for
their native land They merely wanted
the earth, you know; they didn't care
a copper whether it was fenced in or
not. '-BOSt01s transcript.
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a Gorgeous Baron.

Baron Zedwitz, the military attache
of the German legation, was the most
gorgeous thing III regimentals there.
His light blue coat, his tight. white
breeches, and his beautiful patent
leather boots made one soberly uni
formed envious, and when it came to
aigrettes, and loops and cords, and
frogs and medals, any American band
master would die with envy. He car
ried helmet that, with its white horse
tail, is as large as a beehive, and it fills
his arm like a debutante's biggest
bouquet. His patent-leather boots,
that reached up over his knees, do not
look like real warfare, or even riding
academy practice. and the ferocious-
looking silver spurs, that ring musical
~ every time he sets his foot down in
the decisive Prussian marching step.
have no points on the rowels at all.
simply little round pieces of silver. that
only look dangerous at a distance. and
warn the wearers of tuIle dresses to
keep away.-St. Louis Giojl- Democrat.
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The Seven WhistIers' Call.

Once in the life of every man he
hears the seven whistlers' call They
are strange birds on whom mortal eyes
have never rested, the whistle of whose
wings sometimes falls upon the startled
ears. And there is always pOrtent of
something mOmentous for good or evil,
even though they have not "dree their
weird :, for weeks after the seven whist
lers' call. Like all portents, their COM
ing IS mostly in the cleaning. For
then, after all, is the "witching hour"
There is in the quiet of a secluded
country side in the twilight hush which
comes down from the mountain and the
twilight shadows which fall from the
heavens mystical significance of an
other world, and of the fiimsy structure
OF the veil Intervening, which is to be
found at no other hour of the twenty
four. 1t is then, by some lonely wood
pond or in some valley circled by the
woods that this hush is broken by a
faint, far beat, distant note in the air,
not on earth or in the sky overhead,
taken up and repeated six times, and
ever growing clearer and more distinct,
and finally pealing away with rush of
wings and a sound of passing like that
which in all the Mediterranean isles
signaled the death of 1.-The Great Pan"
when Christ was born.-BoSt0n CLIQUE.
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Railroads Not Necessarily Ugly.

Why people fancy that railroad
must necessarily be an ugly object |
have never discovered. There are
railroads ard railroads; a long, straight
raised embankment in a fiat country
is ugly; bur a railroad in a mountain
Gus country adds an additional charm
to the view. Few things are more
beautiful than brick viaduct across a
valley, unless it be the line of steam
which issues from locomotive and
hangs in graceful curves along hill
side Why they are deemed objec-
tionable by esthetes, poets, and such
ike persons is because they are asso-
ciated with that utilitarianism which
IS hateful to their incoming, unprac-
eical minds. Ir9lth.
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Several years ago there lived in Bos-
ton a once prominent artist who was a
broken-down drunkard, He was an
inveterate beggar, and to facilitate his
work had the printed request, LEND
me quarter, pasted in his hat, Then
when making a call he would take off
his hat, and there was the mute appeal
before the eyes OF his intended victim.
The scheme worked well for years.
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The Sphinx's claws have been
brought to light by some curious delivers
in the Egyptian desert. 1t was re-
garded as foregone conclusion that
they would be found to be Of stone,
but, strange to tell, the claws are OF
brick
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-04-28
DON'T EXPERIMENT.

You cannot afford to waste time in
experimenting when your lungs are in
danger. Consumption always seems at
first, only cold. Do not permit any
dealer to impose upon you with some
cheap imitation of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds but be sure you get the genuine
Because he can make more profit he may
tell you he has something just as good,
or just the same. Don't be deceived,
but insist upon getting Dr. Kings New
Discovery, which is guaranteed to give
relief in al! Throat, Lung and Chest
affections. Trial bottles free at Eeny Hin
uchs Drug Store. Large bottles 81.
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One Of the customs among the col
ored students Of a school at Hampton,
Va, in addressing notes to their
schoolmates is to add the place where
the recipient IS supposed to be at the
time Of the delivery, as lat Va hall"
lat school, lat supper" etc. In full
filing this custom an Indian addressed
a note to his teacher: .'Miss-, at
anywhere she is
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J. D MARKHAM,

TTOREEY AND COUNSELLOR At LAW.
& J.uce, IL IorlsOu's Brick Block, Eighth
strert, Man .0F 49, .lt,lOueIu.
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NASH 4 Nash.

i TTORNEY> AND COCNSELORS AT LAW
a once over First National Bank, Eighth ST
promptly attended to.
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An Expensive Plate.

The other day | saw a china plate
a mere plate, mind you, not full set
Of china, but one piece, Just such
plate as you, Mime. NobhilI, would give
your guest for his apple. Itwas rather
pretty and | made up my mind to buy
it, bat | said nothing, for | was afraid
some one else might covet it and run it
up on me. An attentive observer might
have seen me counting the contents of
my pocketbook. and possibly such an
observer would have been surprised at
the gladstone expression that covered
my face when ! discovered that | had
Sl7 and something which l was per
tectly willing to spend on that plate.
The bidding on it began, and the first
bid took my breath away. Before |
could get it back again the modest bit
Of thing had been Knocked down for
$4,000 francs, 220 odd times as much
as | had. There were plenty of other
things which sold that day for 10000
and 10000 francs, and l think l have
already told you that Heilbronn's bed
stead. a richly carved specimen of the
Louis XIV. style, brought over 1900
francs. That is a great deal more than
the one which the Emperor of Germany
sleeps on is worth. His is a camp bed
stead Of iron, and you can buy all you
want of them in Berlin for S25 apiece.
Paris Letter i21 san FrdjlctScO Clron-
lcle
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Allen G. Thurman has the best as
sortment of chickens in the neighbor-
hood, and takes good care Of them; but.
with al his wealth, he keeps no horses.
Mrs. Thurman is afraid to ride, and
her husband does not care to.
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TH0aTnTto be made. Cut tins out and return
iii III II to Es. and we will send Won free
WtiNlI | something of great value and impOr-
tauce to you. that VIII start Won in
business which will bring You in more money
right away than anything else in this world Auv
one can do the work and live a, home Either
sex; all ages. Something new that Just coins
money for all workers We viii start YOU: capf-
tai not needed This i one Of rha genuine. I'M
por4ant chances OF q NtcEime Those who are
ambitious and eufgrprisiug Will not DELAY. Grand
pustitireg, Adtress rRvE s. Coz, 3s2Ssys, Mafre
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In the vicinity of Savannah, Ca,
there are thousands of acres of land
owned by negroes who were once
slaves.
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A New Petroleum Furnace,

A leading manufacturer of heating
apparatus gave an exhibition to-day of
an invention Of his which promises to
work a revolution in solving the prob
lem of heat and at the same time fur
nish market for the vast product of
the Ohio oil-fields. Many experiments
have been made, several devices have
been in the market for using steam to
atomize oil and produce a profitable
combination, but the solution of the
problem in its entirety has hitherto
been impossible and impracticable.
BY the principle discovered by the
inventor he can convert a 3O-cent bar.
rel OF crude oil into as much heat as is
derived ordinarily from six tons of
bituminOus coal 1t consists of con
structing plan to take the place of
grate-bars in any ordinary furnace un-
der the boilers and heating apparatus.
In this pan a small quantity of water
is allowed to stand, supplied from a
pipe as required, and in the center of
the pau small jet of oil is furnished
from a reservoir near by. The oil
spreads over the surface of the water
and is consumed as fast as desired.
Air is supplied from numerous ori-
fees IN the pan above the water and
oil line. When oil and air are supplied
in proper quantities the heat becomes
intense, and far surpasses the hottest
furnace fired with coal or gas.-PtHs-
6asrg Dispatch.
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WI. RAHR'S SONS,

DREW AND MASTER. CORNER SIXTH
ID ana Washington streets, South side. The
highest cash price pa Tor Barley.
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WORKING CLASSES ATTENTION! y re- VII 3a7.

pored furnish al. classes with employment at
home, the whole ot the time, or for their spare
moments Business new. light and profitable.
Persons OF either sex easily from 20 cents 10
500 per evening. and proportional SUN by de-
voting al their time 10 the business. Bows and
girls earn nearly IS much as men. That all who
see tuIs may seud their address. and test the bus
inces W. make this offer. To sucn are not
well satisfied We Will send one dollar to pay for
the trouble ot writing. Full part CUlars aud out
tit Iree. Address GEORGE STINsON X CO., Port
and, Maine. deCg SIS
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MEAT MARNE I
JOHN PITT. Proprietor.
York Street, between 7th and 9Th.

1 Ihaveopened new HeatMarket. on Yorkshire,
where I shall keep constantly on hand all kinds
fresh meats. By fair 'ealing and inst weight hon
to receive q share ef fynur patronage.
iuu2o-12n JOHN PITT
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WILLIAMS HOUSE

A JOHNSTON, PROPRIETOR. Corner OF
"a. Eighth ana Franklin streets MauitowuC
i irst-class American Hotel, centrally located
offers every inducemeut 10 the travelling public.
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e. S. LUHMANN, NJ. D. !,

EAHTsIgIlS AND SURGEON. OFFCE AT
Il Residence 0f Dr. II. simon, Hancock street,
lear lae court house, MauitOvoc, Wis. del5
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GHAS. II. SEEGER.

DENTIsT. OFFICE UPSTAIRS II AMBER
= sons Block, Corner South Eighth and quay
streets MaaitoW0c, Wis. Prompt attention viii
DC given 10 all work entrusted 70 me. apr2i-oI
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sen AIIIZ- \ kIR WAN.

4 IT9RNEYs At LtW. OFFIcE ~ FEAEz'-
4 BlneK south Eighth Street, Nauitowoc,
Wisconsin. .mayll
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FOR SALE.

The undersigned offers for sale farm con
tanning h1 acres of land situated in the town of
Cato. and described as folio VS.: NWa NV
See. -. Town ~. Range -, containing 40 acres;
and SW NV same town. range AMI
section, containing 20 acres. For further n
formation apply To MRS. c. KENDALL,
fehle Frankfort. Mich.
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On Jekyl island, Georgia, IS a band
of horses so wild that they run at the
sight Of man. William Turner, who
has charge Of a club house on the is
land, says that the other morning one
Of these horses came to the barn, ap-
parently in great pain, allowed herself
to be battered, and showned unmis-
taxable signs Of gratitude when Tur-
ner dootorcd her and gave her relief.
Usually these horses are very stub
born and vicious, and nearly die of
starvation before they will yield to
man.
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G.. A FORREST,

TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
i OIice in Garu- Block, first L.or. n door
e1Tiag t. County judges Office, south Eighth
Street Hanitow0c Wis. Collections promptly
F. .+t1r8sF. ~ JuiZU
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FITS: All Fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer Fofts after first days Use Mar
yelous cures Treatise and 500 trial bottle free 20
Fit cases, send to DR.. Kline, g31 Arch Pa.
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S. SANDERSON.

ANFFACTURERAND DEALER IN BOOTS
vi Shoes, Leather, sc, &C. Shop on Buffalo
Street near the corner of Eighth Repairing
neatly and PROMPTLY executed.
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,-o.r4sy PUBLIC AND MONEY BROKER
.r.F Uapar- drawn and money loaned on
.-aaa security. Mauit0woC. Wis
once west OF Man towoc Savings Bank.